Forewarning: I have a capslock/full throttle issue, I really like to talk about is various super attractive fictional people and how much I feel they should be making out, I live in a near-constant state of nostalgia, I like lame things, by the time I get around to seeing the hip movies they are no longer hip, I only shower every other day, I think new shoes are exciting news, I really (really) like korean pop music, 93% of the time I will pick fun TV over good TV, my most dominant personality trait is contrariness, my favorite sport will probably always be figure skating, I am boring.

But if you want to be friends anyway, this is the place to ask.

Dearest Yuletide Santa,

Firstly I am so sorry that you received an assignment with literally nothing to go on! Sorry I am such a twerp. I was not especially planning on doing yuletide this year (it has been several years since I have participated, I am, as you can perhaps tell, something of an internet ghost these days), but on the very last night of sign ups some friends of mine were talking about their sign ups, and I felt very left out. Of course I would decide to throw together a sign up all "I'LL WRITE PROMPTS LATER!!!" in a week where I had to buy a car (terrible) and also go out of town (not terrible but time-consuming). Also I did not realize assignments would go out so soon. But I suppose I would have been v. late by now even if they had not happened so quickly.

Anyway! Do you even want this? Have you already got plot ideas in your head? Have you already gone into "WELL, FUCK IT, I'M WRITING WHAT I WANT" mode because you basically received a blank recipient? If so you should feel free to stop reading because I was pretty specific in my character selections and it would be VERY DIFFICULT for you to write something with any of these ships that I love that I will not love. (Also I am a big lover of gen, so if you’re NOT into any of these people romantically, I will still be delighted, pinkie swear.) But I know that I, personally, find prompts helpful, so. Here are some of those.

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You are the best. I appreciate this so much and look forward to whatever you produce.

xoxo

A couple of months ago, I was listening to a segment on NPR with Gene Kelly's widow, and she was talking about how his legacy -- she thought, and he thought -- was mostly about him changing the way dance was shown on film. Which makes sense: he's probably the only significant dancer/choreographer/director, right? Of course he was more dedicated to finding the best ways to show good dance on films. She was talking about how it's since regressed, and how whenever you watch a modern musical the dance scenes are all quick cuts, rather than long frames. Because it's not about the dance itself, it's about the fact that they're dancing. (Compare: An American in Paris to Dreamgirls).

I thought: I wonder if anyone has ever used this framework to analyze kpop music vidoes.

And then I thought: No one but you would ever do that.

And then I thought: I miss lj.

(And then I thought: actually, that whole thing would be pretty dull, because kpop is probably all quick cuts.)

I don't know why I had to type all that I'm actually just here because I love making people do this dumb meme I made up and there's still no better place to do it:

Top thirty kpop songs/promotional tracks from 2015. Go.

Same rules:
- thirty songs exactly, no honorable mentions or "these two are tied for thirty and thirty-one", you're gonna have to make some hard decisions and it's gonna be okay.
- RANK THEM!
- This is actually not really a "top thirty kpop songs" game, it's a "top thirty korean promotional tracks" game. So no Japanese tracks, and no album "filler" songs*. Which I know is kind of annoying -- I loved 4minute's "Whatever" and SNSD's Japanese singles more than a lot of the songs on my list. But I think there's a lot of interesting stuff that happens in the bottom ten when you're making just a list of promotional tracks. It reveals a lot about the randomer passing fondnesses you guys have -- in a way it's more interesting than the top ten (THOUGH THAT'S FUN TOO). Anyway. I MAKE THE RULES, AND THIS IS WHAT THEY ARE. THEY HAVE TO BE PROMOTIONAL SINGLES!
- This is a list of favorites, not a list of bests. Never forget that!

*this rule sucks EXTRA in the year of "Check" and "Papi", doesn't it?

Hey stinky old livejournal,

Wassup!

I guess you can't really keep up with me anymore. I'm up to my usual tricks, which is brief intense pocket phases of things I already watched (Downton Abbey since I've been home for Christmas, before that it was Star Trek bc I'm me). I live in LA now. Which has been wonderful! I'm so happy with the community I've built myself in six months in a city that isn't the best at community. Right now I don't want to go back because I have like, adult bullshit to deal with when I get there. When did I hit 25? Why can't I just go shopping w/ my sisters every day and see Into the Woods like nine more times? Colorado is so nice. It actually gets cold here.

So here is my second post of 2014. Which might not have even happened, because what is even the point of making LJ posts anymore, but it felt like, fundamentally wrong to not do these two things before 2015 began:

1. post my christmas mix. LISTEN, I KNOW IT'S DECEMBER 28TH. I know it's practically December 29th. I had laptop trouble. And previous to that I couldn't decide where I would even post it. Tumblr, even though I have no presence there? LJ, even though nobody has any presence here? Also is it really posting it if I just link to the 8tracks? It totally does, right? I'm really only doing this for archival purposes. We're all sick of Christmas music anyway. ( tracklistCollapse )

2. I wanna play this game again. Even if it's only three of us. Copy & pasted from TWO ENTRIES DOWN, god this is sad. Sry I have let you fall into such decay elapses. But this kind of game is exactly what you are unparalleledly made for:

Top thirty kpop songs/promotional tracks from 2014. Go.

Same rules:
- thirty songs exactly, no honorable mentions or "these two are tied for thirty and thirty-one", you're gonna have to make some hard decisions and it's gonna be okay.
- RANK THEM!
- This is actually not really a "top thirty kpop songs" game, it's a "top thirty korean promotional tracks" game. So no Japanese tracks, and no album "filler" songs. Which I know is kind of annoying -- I loved 4minute's "Whatever" and SNSD's Japanese singles more than a lot of the songs on my list. But I think there's a lot of interesting stuff that happens in the bottom ten when you're making just a list of promotional tracks. It reveals a lot about the randomer passing fondnesses you guys have -- in a way it's more interesting than the top ten (THOUGH THAT'S FUN TOO). Anyway. I MAKE THE RULES, AND THIS IS WHAT THEY ARE. THEY HAVE TO BE PROMOTIONAL SINGLES!
- This is a list of favorites, not a list of bests. Never forget that!

ANYWAY I LIKE YOU, OLD LIVEJOURNAL FRIENDS. Hope you all know that. Hope it's been a good year for everyone.

Remember this kpop game from last year? Today I'm working on my craftier Christmas presents and watching Christmas movies with my roommates and MAYBE going to the grocery store bc even though I have a ton of food I don't think I have anything I could actually make into a cohesive meal, ( so what I'm saying is it's a good day to play this again.Collapse )

holiday love meme 2013
my thread here

HAVE YOU EVEN DONE ENOUGH INTERNET STUFF THIS YEAR TO DESERVE THIS, ALEXANDRA!?!? (yes, because everyone deserves the holiday love meme. even though it still feels a leeeettle bit strange not to do it at allthingsgood.)

This would be what motivated me to make a LJ post: please name your top 10 romantic comedies, friends. Define "romantic comedy" however you see fit. (That sentence makes it sound like I want you to go indie or weird -- I don't, I just want to know your favorites. If your favorites are "You've Got Mail" and "Love Actually", that's what you should put. But if you're teetering on the edge of "does _____ count as a romantic comedy???", you should totally count it.)

IT'S REAL IT'S TRUE

the voyager one, as a convenient reference material

DNW
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Tolerable!
Awesome?
I LOVE EVERYONE IN THIS BAR SHIP
the Salamander award for COMPLETELY RIDICULOUS, would watch again

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There's a "state of my life" post sitting in my livejournal client right now and like, it's too big for me to not post now so I'm sure you'll all see it eventually but

I'M WATCHING ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, RIGHT, and there's this whole stalker-courtship thing going on in episode three, which culminates* in a terrible verbal poem that goes:

before I met you the sun was like a yellow grape
but now it look like fire in the sky
why?
because you light a fire inside me

And like the delivery was great and the poem is appropriately ridiculous but as I watched it I was like... that grape metaphor... is extremely familiar... but where could I possibly have read a poem that horrible...

ANYWAY THE ANSWER IS THAT DURING MY JUNIOR YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL, my friends and I were fabricating this really stupid plan to get our other friend to go out with this guy she was friends with who we kind of liked and kind of hated?? (It was high school, I don't know.) The only part of the plan that ever got executed (we were the kinds of girls for whom the making of the operation notebook was much more deserving of attention than any actual operations) was this secret admirer note we threw in her locker to plant the seed. You know where this is going, right? Kind of? The guy was like, super pompous and super ridiculous and obviously it HAD to be a poem if we wanted her to suspect him, but idk even though he was a smart dude we couldn't imagine him writing a good one...

...so during my lunch hour-and-a-half one day I googled "bad love poetry" until I stumbled across this site.

I think the one I paraphrased as Jared was actually the first one, the u turn one ("you turn" hahahahahaha STILL FUNNY) but look at the second one:

Before I met you, the sun looked like a grape.
Now the sun looks like a mass of flames.
Speaking of flames,
Have you felt the heat of the flames
Of my love for you?

JENJI KOHAN AND I HAVE IDENTICAL GOOGLE FU

soulbonded by our "shit I need a bad love poem but I can't think up one on the spot" plagiarism



*actually technically the poem bit is hardly the apex of that storyline and so it doesn't culminate there BUT I REALLY LIKE THE WORD CULMINATE AND I'LL USE YOU HOW I WANT TO USE YOU, ENGLISH LANGUAGE